Credit: NRKbeta/Wikimedia Commons & Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons “Paid organizers for the communists are only trying to get good negroes in trouble. Alabama is a good place for good negroes to live in, but it is a bad place for negroes who believe in SOCIAL EQUALITY.” If you updated the language and added some flavor-of-the-day woke terminology to these sentences from … [Read more...] about Out of State, Out of Mind: Media Narratives and the Recent Protest Movement
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The Shallow Multiculturalist Popularity of “One Day at a Time”
When liberal multicultural politics continue to dominate film, TV, and other media, we miss the people and issues both “at the margin and at the center.” Black Cuban boys enjoying time playing outside in Trinidad, Cuba. People across the United States continue to make a fuss over the cancellation of Netflix’s Cuban-American remake of Whitney Blake and Allan Maning’s One … [Read more...] about The Shallow Multiculturalist Popularity of “One Day at a Time”
DSA’s Left and Right Both Miss the Point: We Need to Build the Left and the Working-Class Together
The article “Do America’s Socialists Have a Race Problem?” in The New Republic reaffirmed for me why I’ve hitched my wagon to Philly Socialists and the Marxist Center, rather than DSA. It’s not because I share the author’s implied criticisms or think he gave DSA a fair shake. He clearly didn’t! It’s because DSA is having a fierce internal debate in which both sides of the … [Read more...] about DSA’s Left and Right Both Miss the Point: We Need to Build the Left and the Working-Class Together